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SUO: Re: Parse Of Things Remembered




>
>P.S.  Slight look-ahead --
>      Is there an extra right parens in the
>      expression that I pretty-printed below?
>J.A.
>
> > where 'first', 'second', etc., are some fixed set of binary
> > relations.  (In case grammar these correspond to cases such
> > as 'agent', 'subject' and so on, and the 'e' is something like
> > an event or a situation, of type R, corresponding to the verb
> > of the simple sentence, as in:
> >
> > Gave (John, Book, Mary, yesterday)
> >     --->
> > ( exists e )
> > ( Giving (e) &
> >   agent (e, John) &
> >   subject (e, book) &
> >   recipient (e, Mary) &
> >   time (e, yesterday))                 <<<---<<<  Here?
> > ).
> >

Yes, sorry. In KIF this would be (just to set the record straight):

(exists (?e)(and (giving ?e)
                          (agent ?e John)
                          (subject ?e book)
                          (recipient ?e Mary)
                          (time ?e yesterday)
                   )
)

Pat Hayes

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